I get this question a decent amount in my Intro to SQL Server Management Session (called "I've got a SQL Database Now What?" or "SQL Server Management for the non Database Administrator").
Frankly it doesn't really matter. As long as you attach the database to a SQL Instance that is somewhere...

Nothing irks me more when I walk into my session room than the prior presenter still standing up there doing his thing eating into my 15 minutes of prep/setup time. Conferences have fixed length sessions for a reason. So that the audience knows how long the session will be, so that the presenter...

Demos are one of the most fun parts of presenting, and one of the riskiest. This is because the demo gods have two options. They can smile upon you and give you a perfect demo, or they can piss all over you and your demo can crash and burn. How you handle those demo failures shows how good of a...

I've heard some talk from SQL Saturday organizers that they only want advanced sessions at their SQL Saturday, for some reason or another.
This probably isn't what your attendees want. Sure, some of them do. But a lot of people who attend these sorts of sessions want more introduction...

Well, today is a bit of a milestone for me. As of today, I've published 1000 blog posts on IT Knowledge Exchange which is hosted by TechTarget. I've blogged about a lot of stuff over the years, including PASS, EMC World, SQL Server, Storage, Exchange, etc. Here's some highlights from my posting...

Recently a client brought me a challenge. They wanted to more a database from one LUN to another. So far this is pretty straight forward. The trick here is that this is a multi-TB instance with several databases which are about 1TB in size, and the instance has a two hour per night maintenance...

This year the SQL PASS conference held their first Speaker Idol contest with the goal of getting new speakers into the PASS Summit on the strength of their presentation skills instead of their abstracts.
And I think I can safely say that it was a resounding success.
We started with 40 people...

I just want to remind everyone that SQL Karaoke is Tonight at Cow Girls, Inc.
Be sure to get signed up and show up for a great time with an awesome Rockaraoke Band.
A great time will be had by all. I can't wait to...

Index seeks are good, right? Normally they are, unless the index that you are seeking against isn't the correct index. If we look at Figure 1 everything in this plan looks good, right?
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